The pristine canopy of the Amazon rainforest is breathtaking when seen from the air. It's hard to describe just how big it is, but it is absolutely vast, spanning nine countries in South America.

Every hectare of the Amazon that is destroyed pushes the rainforest closer to collapse. And if we lose the Amazon, we lose the fight against the climate crisis. We can all be part of the solution.

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest ... Even when that isn’t the case, the food given to cows may be grown on destroyed rainforest land. The environmental organisation Greenpeace ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. The improvement ...

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New data from a non-profit reveals that humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover - raising alarm that a key natural buffer against ...

Getty Images The Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest ... The environmental group Greenpeace has highlighted vast patches of rainforest destroyed to meet the global demand for soybean ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in ... government is responsible for every inch of forest destroyed. This government today is the worst enemy of the Amazon ...